iTo	THE POLAND OF PILSUDSKI
reached when the Council of the League of Nations on February
3, 1923, came to a final recommendation respecting fixing the
line of demarcation between Poland and Lithuania in the neutral
zone which had been in existence for more than two years; the
Council described this line in detail. The Lithuanian delegate
declared that Lithuania would oppose this decision by all the
means in her power. Some days later the Polish Government
requested the Ambassadors' Conference to fix the eastern frontiers
of Poland, in accordance with Article 87 of the Versailles Treaty;
the Lithuanian Government had made several requests to the
same effect during the preceding year. On March 14, 1923, the
Ambassadors' Conference decided to recognize the line fixed by
the Council of the League as the frontier of Poland and Lithuania.
Lithuania said she would not accept the decision, though she
had repeatedly asked for one. Poland, satisfied that the recom-
mendation of the Council of the League would be adopted by
the Ambassadors, began to take possession of her share of the
neutral zone on February 15; Lithuanian irregulars made some
resistance, but no serious fighting occurred.
poland's eastern frontiers fixed
The fixation by the Ambassadors' Conference on March 14,
1923, of Poland's eastern frontiers included the frontier with
Soviet Russia; the Ambassadors recognized the frontier traced by
the Treaty of Riga. The news of the decision was received with
great rejoicing in Poland. On March 19 a Te Deum was sung by
Cardinal Kakowski in the cathedral at Warsaw, in presence of
President Wojciechowski, the members of the Government and
many distinguished people. Great joy was manifested in Vilna
and Lwow, the Vilna question and the Eastern Galicia question
being definitively settled. The protocol respecting the fixation of
the eastern frontiers was signed on March 15, 1923, at the Quai
d'Orsay by Poincare for France, Phipps for England, Avezzana
for Italy and Matsuda for Japan; Zamoyski, Polish Ambassador
in Paris, signed the document in token of Poland's acceptance of
the decision.